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Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:00 pm
by BigTruck
Here's how it works  ;)

Dude get's hurt, pop green smoke...
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...and green smoke will attract...
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...HELICOPTERS!!!
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...and there ya have it folks, if you ever need a lift just pop green smoke  ;)

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:08 pm
by Mictheslik
cool.....I have similar pictures but with an RAF seaking and a lifeboat :)

.mic

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:51 pm
by Omag 2.0
Green smoke attracting helicopters? Wait a minute... I have a field and a DIY-shop nearby... hmmm... time for some smoke!  ;D

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:04 pm
by Isak922
Green smoke equals free ride?

Might have to try it  ;D

Very nice pictures!

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:24 pm
by C
Green smoke equals free ride?



Well, I now know that green smoke means there's a chance a Blackhawk or similar helicopter will be in the immediate area of said smoke fairly soon afterwards.

So does the rest of the world - this is an open forum. And I'm guessing these pics were taken in a hot sandy place in the middle east...


:-?

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:25 pm
by BigTruck
Green smoke equals free ride?



Well, I now know that green smoke means there's a chance a Blackhawk or similar helicopter will be in the immediate area of said smoke fairly soon afterwards.

So does the rest of the world - this is an open forum. And I'm guessing these pics were taken in a hot sandy place in the middle east...


:-?



Any pics I show were cleared through operations last year and I haven't given any specifics so there isn't any useful info to jeopardize anyone's safety, I'm smarter than that

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:49 pm
by C
(besides that, this was a training op and it takes a little more than smoke to convince a chopper to land in a hot zone, this isn't going to help any insurgents by any means if that was what you were concerned about, they show these scenerios at airshows all the time ;) )


I was more thinking along the lines of knowing a potential target was about to fly in, rather than some nasty chaps trying to coerce the naivest helicopter pilot in the world to land and pick them up with some green smoke... ;)

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:09 pm
by BigTruck
:) I figured that's what you meant, rest assured I took it into consideration before posting (as did the operations office when they cleared it before I left) but good looking out on your part  :)  

Posting compromising photos of military on the net drives me crazy,   >:( it's an unnessasary risk of lives, and I couldn't do that to fellow servicemen, I made sure all photos I took were good to go before I left country so I wouldn't be one of those guys  :)

Re: Medevac Tutorial

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:42 am
by Ivan
was more thinking along the lines of knowing a potential target was about to fly in, rather than some nasty chaps trying to coerce the naivest helicopter pilot in the world to land and pick them up with some green smoke...

The baddies already know that...  from having watched 'blackhawk down' and 'apocalypse now' on black market DVDs, or because they did the same in 1985-1988.